Who: Emily & Mao What: A random run in when trying to escape the madness When: Late afternoon, September 29th Where: The park Rating: PG/PG-13 Status: In Progress
He wasn't home. Where could he be? Was he hurt? Was he at a friends? Wouldn't he want to be home...now of all times? Evan wasn't home, Emily couldn't believe it. The one place she felt safe and he wasn't home. She needed her brother right now. Maybe he went to the house...no...even if he did she didn't want to risk going back there. Not with her dad and Bethany fighting. She hated the fall out. She knew what was coming. One day she'd come home and Bethany would be gone, all her things gone and her dad would act like she never existed. Just like he did with her mother. Then a new wife would show up and she'd try to bond with Emily too. She shook her head and turned to go away. She pressed the button next to his name again in vain. She sat down on the stoop, where else could she go? I mean Jacen was nice enough to text her back, no way she'd go over there. He was probably hanging out with Josie. Calvin texted her back too, but he's probably just too freaked out about what happened and was with Cady and maybe Vivian. And Katie was probably with James. Everyone had someone to be with and she had...she glanced back at the panel with the buttons...no one. A thought struck her, maybe he was with Natalie. She stood up and she stopped herself from pressing that button. But what is he wasn't. Also would she really want to risk Natalie's wrath if she was the kind of girl who'd sleep with David behind her brother's back. She seemed so nice...but...Evan said...and she would always believe Evan. A horrifying thought came to mind. Maybe nothing happened and maybe Evan was turning into their father. Going through women like she did her poetry notebooks. 'Oh Evan, no!' She prayed that wasn't it, but what else could it be. Natalie was a cheater or Evan was their father. She shook her head and decided to go back to the park.
Emily had been learning to better control her powers, channeling emotions into other or focusing on better things. The rain had stopped but it was bitterly cold. Since she knew she'd be taking Irulan out on a long walk she dressed for just this kind of weather. She didn't want Irulan to get cold so once she found a bench to sit on she slipped Irulan into the front of her jacked and zipped it up so only her little head peeked out. Emily stared up at the sky that had just started to darken. Twilight, the magic hour she had heard once. However, nothing seemed magical now. Everything was just a mess, she wished she could just erase her memories, just go back and forget everything. Forget Evan maybe being crazy or worse, her dad and Bethany fighting, seeing the body bags that were most likely filled with Dietre's parents, forget about falling for Jacen, forget about learning about her powers, forget about when she turned into a Barbie, forget Max, forget ever realizing that human courtship was actually not stupid. Forget this past year. Nothing seemed to have gone right. She felt Irulan shift...well almost nothing. She was grateful for Irulan, she was her little constant beacon of happiness, she kept her from falling into that pit and not caring enough to crawl back out. Right now she was all she needed. She needed Irulan, the park, and quiet. Peace, nothing was outside this moment.